FW: Verizon outage in Southern California?

Tue Oct 18 23:42:03 UTC 2005

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Apparently there was a software glitch in the switch(s) which disrupted
 route calls.

regards,
/virendra

Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>>>>From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
>>>>Behalf Of Matthew Black
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:13 PM
>>>
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>>I'm not completely familiar with the telco jargon.
>>Does Tandem mean the same as a local central office, where
>>POTS lines terminate at the switch? Long Beach has a population
>>of 470,000. The C/Os I know of are:
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> A tandem office is a CO primarily used as an aggregated switch point
> between local CO's. Think interconnection of local CO's or long haul
> tandems.
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>>Alamitos at 7th Street and Termino, ZIP 90814
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>>Clark near Clark Ave and Pacific Coast Highway, ZIP 90804
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>>LongBeach at 6th Street and Elm Ave, ZIP 90802
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>>Lakewood at Clark Ave and Connant St, ZIP 90808
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>>LNBHCAXG at 3440 California Ave, ZIP 90807 (for my home)
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> That's the building CLLI, the switch is LNBCHAXGDS0.
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> This one is a 5ESS and serves 12 exchanges.
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> 562-290 562-424 562-426 562-427 562-490 
> 562-492 562-595 562-933 562-981 562-988 
> 562-989 562-997 
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> I see 7 5ESS and 1 Nortel SLC DMS 10, possibly a remote to
> a campus or something, in Long Beach.
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> 507 E LEW is holding the most switching gear is likely
> a tandem. Um, I think this is the tandem code, PNTCMIMN50T,
> and it's servicing about 20 areas.
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>>I have no idea whether cell service was truly affected. The
>>announcements we sent to our campus suggested people use their
>>cell phones for 911 service which would be serviced by the
>>CA Highway Patrol (Erik Estrada, etc.) or a campus telephone
>>which is serviced by our local campus police (sworn state police).
>>I was completely unaware of the outage until someone else
>>mentioned it in my office.
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> If you know of an NPA-NXX of a cell phone that was impacted,
> send it privately and I'll tell you what CO it terminates in.
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